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"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote


Take it easy Larry, I was bein' facetious.

I didn't feel attacked, just felt the desire to express my thoughts on the
subject

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"Larry L" wrote in message
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"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote


Take it easy Larry, I was bein' facetious.

I didn't feel attacked, just felt the desire to express my thoughts on the
subject

While we're on the subject of sight fishin', I hit the waters today with
Uncle Wally and if I had waited to see a fish rise, I wouldn't have caught
the one fish I caught all day long. Which brings me to my question: Where
do you fish that you can sight fish exclusively? On our streams, fishin' to
probable lies is a must, IMMHO.

Op --no sunglasses were needed to fish today, as it was very overcast--

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"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote in message
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Op --no sunglasses were needed to fish today, as it was very overcast--



I was fishing the Smith River on a blustery spring day (sans sunglasses) and
buried a #12 zug bug all the way to the bend, into the bridge of my nose...
less than a 1/4 inch from the ol' eye ball.

I don't fish without sunglasses any more...

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"Skwala" wrote in message
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I was fishing the Smith River on a blustery spring day (sans sunglasses)
and
buried a #12 zug bug all the way to the bend, into the bridge of my
nose...
less than a 1/4 inch from the ol' eye ball.

I don't fish without sunglasses any more...

Not a problem for me, my eyesight is so bad that I have to wear prescription
glasses EVERYDAY.

I know you are right about eye-protection though. I have worked in the
construction industry for over 25 years. I rarely wear safety glasses, but
also know that I have been very fortunate not to have been blinded,
regardless of my 'scripts. A co-worker was doin' so home improvements a
couple of months ago. He used a hole-saw to core a stripped screw, then
proceeded to pry the plug out with a screw-driver, when a portion broke
loose and shot like a bullet into his left eyeball. He was blinded for
about a three weeks and is just now gettin' his eyesight back to normal. It
didn't cut the eye or anything, but the blunt trauma bruised the back of his
eye. He was very lucky not to have lost that eye!

Op --it'll never happen to me, right!--

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"I rarely wear safety glasses" Better start , fastest way to run off a
job around here ( and in most parts of the country I've worked ) is
violating safety rules. Hate to see that new job go away before it starts.

"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote in message
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"Skwala" wrote in message
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I was fishing the Smith River on a blustery spring day (sans sunglasses)
and
buried a #12 zug bug all the way to the bend, into the bridge of my
nose...
less than a 1/4 inch from the ol' eye ball.

I don't fish without sunglasses any more...

Not a problem for me, my eyesight is so bad that I have to wear
prescription
glasses EVERYDAY.

I know you are right about eye-protection though. I have worked in the
construction industry for over 25 years. I rarely wear safety glasses,
but
also know that I have been very fortunate not to have been blinded,
regardless of my 'scripts. A co-worker was doin' so home improvements a
couple of months ago. He used a hole-saw to core a stripped screw, then
proceeded to pry the plug out with a screw-driver, when a portion broke
loose and shot like a bullet into his left eyeball. He was blinded for
about a three weeks and is just now gettin' his eyesight back to normal.
It
didn't cut the eye or anything, but the blunt trauma bruised the back of
his
eye. He was very lucky not to have lost that eye!

Op --it'll never happen to me, right!--

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Guyz-N-Flyz wrote:
"Larry L" wrote in message
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"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote


Take it easy Larry, I was bein' facetious.

I didn't feel attacked, just felt the desire to express my thoughts on the
subject


While we're on the subject of sight fishin', I hit the waters today with
Uncle Wally and if I had waited to see a fish rise, I wouldn't have caught
the one fish I caught all day long. Which brings me to my question: Where
do you fish that you can sight fish exclusively? On our streams, fishin' to
probable lies is a must, IMMHO.

Op --no sunglasses were needed to fish today, as it was very overcast--



you left to early dude.... i stuck the jeep in 4wd and proceeded
up trail 297867523 up towards whachamacallit creek. damn, all dem
fish were stacked up below the falls .... i didn't even hafta
cast.... i just waded on out and tickled the lovelies. one of em,
'bout 22 inches or so, enjoyed the act so much i sweartagawd i
could hear it cacklin..... ohop... ohop.... oh opie.

you *******!

thank gawd fer action optics.... never would have seen that fish
without 'em.... ;-)

wished they would have helped me see the rod i left on the
roof.... and lost. :-(

waldo....

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walt winter wrote:


wished they would have helped me see the rod i left on the roof.... and
lost. :-(

I did the same thing about two weeks ago. It sucks!

Willi

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Willi wrote:


walt winter wrote:


wished they would have helped me see the rod i left on the roof....
and lost. :-(


I did the same thing about two weeks ago. It sucks!

Willi





well, at least i caught some fish with it...... i hope the new
owner has a good time with it.... sage ds2 7.5 4wt with an old
lamson 1.5 light click....

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"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote

.. Which brings me to my question: Where
do you fish that you can sight fish exclusively? On our streams, fishin'
to
probable lies is a must, IMMHO.


well, first let me say I DO fish to "probable lies" using all types of
presentations ... I don't want to overstate my preferences to the point of
saying "sight fish exclusively" ... and I guess I did come close to that
overstatement. I bore with such fishing quickly, however, unless the
catching is pretty dang good ... MY weakness, not an implied weakness of the
style of fishing

But, I most often fish spring creeks, meadow type streams and stillwaters.
And I'm not an "all day " fisher by any stretch, so I try to be on stream
for any surface feeding that may occur and skip the rest of the day.

Many of the places I fish it's really pretty easy to spot the fish .... for
example the last place I visited was Hot Creek and you can see fish
everywhere you look. Most good stillwaters have places where crusiers can
be seen if hatches don't have their location obvious, too. My "list of
favorites" would include Silver Creek, Poindexter Slough, Henry's Fork, Hat
and Hot Creeks, Fall River, certain unnamed sections of certain unnamed
rivers sonewhat closer to home:-), The Missouri, The Madison in the Park,
Hebgen Lake,
etc etc
..... all places where fish are easy to see and rises a daily happening for a
couple hours or more.

I also, occasionally, fish small mountain freestones near home, that are
much like I imagine your streams to be and usually "fish the water"
on them. I enjoy it, but more for the walk in the woods, than for
predator-prey issues .... i.e. fishing. But even on these I can and do
usually find visible or rising fish, and I nearly always look hard before
casting


Again, my way is simply that ... mine, .... better fishermen are far more
versatile than myself

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Larry L wrote:

well, first let me say I DO fish to "probable lies" using all types of
presentations ... I don't want to overstate my preferences to the point of
saying "sight fish exclusively" ... and I guess I did come close to that
overstatement. I bore with such fishing quickly, however, unless the
catching is pretty dang good ... MY weakness, not an implied weakness of the
style of fishing

There's something very rewarding to me in fishing a "probable lie" and
catching a fish -- something that goes beyond the rewards of sight
fishing. In this sense, seeing the fish is too easy. Seeing a lie and
just KNOWING that there's a fish, and then catching the fish, or at
least getting a take, is sublime.

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